Evolve is predominantly a cooperative / competetive multiplayer shooter, which focuses on 4-v-1 gameplay. Players take control of one of four Hunter characters or a Monster in a variety of gameplay modes. Usually, the objective of the Hunters is to kill the Monster player before they can evolve their Monster enough to take down the hunters.

The creators of Left 4 Dead have officially revealed the first information on their new project, Evolve.

Featured on the February cover of Game Informer, the Turtle Rock-developed game will be a sci-fi multiplayer-focused shooter heading to PS4, Xbox One and PC in autumn. An official teaser site has also gone live, though it's fairly sparse right now.

As it's only available for next-gen systems, Evolve is promising to offer a new kind of multiplayer experience. Clearly taking inspiration from its previous project, Evolve is a sci-fi multiplayer-focused shooter that will pit a four-player crew of alien hunters against a separate player controlled monster that increases in strength over a series of matches.

Each hunter features unique items and abilities, though the monster is far from defenseless, boasting colossal size and devastating attacks.

The key tenets of Evolve are supposedly variety and replayability supported through a mix of co-operative and competitive multiplayer elements. The main featured mode is called Hunt - a 4 vs 1 where the Hunters try to stop the Monster from evolving and destroying a generator.

The Evolve IP was snapped up by 2K Games in the THQ auction last year for a cool $10.8 million.

It was announced during the Microsoft E3 2014 briefing that the Evolve Beta would be coming to the Xbox One first. The beta begins on January 15th for anyone with an Xbox Live Gold account - no code required.